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Note. In naval circles
it is custom to refer to the commander of a vessel as Captain. The Navy
List bears the phrase "in command".
Strictly out of practical considerations
CO (Commanding Officer) is used here on this site.

Education: CBC (Christian Brothers' College?);
University of Cape Town (post-war).

(10.1943)

-

(02.1944)

HMSAS
Blaauwberg

05.03.1944

-

(06.)1944

HMS Copra (Combined
Operations accounting base)

(10.1944)

no
appointment listed

19.12.1944

-

(10.1945)

HMS
Rotherham (destroyer)

(04.1946)

no
appointment listed

His daughter writes: "He was also a junior
gunnery officer. He said it was a most wonderful way for a young man to see the
world! They were not in battle but on a mission. This was part of the plan for
the Normandy landings. These plans must thus have been in preparation for a year
or so before they took place. What then happened was in June 1944 the RN Flotilla sailed
down from Scotland picking up boats and men on the way to the point where they
were to cross the channel. he was on one of the destroyers that was sent in to
draw fire from the French coast - hence the collection of old ammo in the Far
East. It was decided that these three old destroyers of a particular class I
cant remember what it was, were suitable for cannon fodder. He was on the first
boat. The order was to fire off a shots and them move away. This they did. The second boat came through fired a couple of shots and narrowly missed being
hit then by the time the third one came in it was in the sights of the
opposition and was blasted out of the water. Rather terrible actually, but all
part of the fire cover for the landings, which were dreadful in themselves, but
utterly necessary I suppose given the situation. But he then went on to the far
east on the Rotherham on escort duty for merchant ships where he was on the RN Vessel
when the Japanese then surrendered to the allies. All very dramatic for a 19
year old. He remembered meeting the king (who had a bad stutter as did he) and
Mountbatten, who was universally loved by all the men. He ended up living in
Cape Town raising a family and becoming Chief Engineer of the then Cape Province
local Government."

Education: Grey High School
Trained on the General Botha, 1933/34. Apprentice Clan Line, Clan Macdougall -
Commodore ship, 1935. Junior Officer on the SS Umgeni, one of the very last ships to leave Hamburg before hostilities broke out.

served in the SANF during
the war, mainly on coastal minesweepers but also saw service in the
Mediterranean:

Returned to the Merchant Navy post-war. Captain C J
Harris had a life-long association with the sea.As a master mariner he commanded scientific research ships and, after his
retirement, diamond recovery vessels off the Namibian coast. Shipping
journalist.Published: War at sea : South African maritime operations during World
War II (1991); (with Brian D. Ingpen) Mailships of the Union-Castle Line (1994)
* indexed, but not listed as such

Assoc. Prof, in Oceanography, Univ. of C.T.; Retd.
1977; now Visiting Prof. Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand; formerly Chief Research
Officer National Instit. for Water Research CSIR.
* indexed, but not listed as such

in charge of the naval establishment at Tobruk and
badly burnt when blowing up the ammunition dumps there; he wandered into the desert and was captured by the
Germans; transferred to a hospital at Bremerhaven (Germany), then sent to a prison
camp

Education: Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape Town.
After the war, he attended the University of Cape Town Medical School. Died in
an accident in his fourth year there, after passing all his examinations with
first class honours.

Chartered Secretary, General Manager of various Building Societies, Town Clerk of Umtentweni, MPC for Natal South Coast.
* indexed, but not listed as such

* Lieutenant
McQouid-Mason is another particularly outstanding officer of the flotilla,
whose experience since his appointment in May 1942 have covered a wide range
of duties including, during the course of 19 operations, First Lieutenant and
Commanding Officer of individual craft and latterly as Commanding Officer of
the Expedition.
This officer's qualities as a seaman and a leader early came into prominence,
and on one occasion when the ship in which he was serving as First Lieutenant
(MGB 501) was destroyed at sea by an internal explosion, DDOD(I) was was
onboard at the time was impressed with his cool ability. He accompanied the
latter below decks in search of survivors and subsequently tended the injured
and made preparations for abandoning ship.
After a short detachment in command of a specially constructed fast fishing
vessel attached to DDOD(I)'s Bay of Biscay flotilla, Lieut Mason played a
leading role in a series of trials to determine the best of several types of
small surf-boats constructed by DDOD(I) for carriage onboard MGBs. Here
his natural gift for seamanship was evident.
Subsequently he returned to the 15th MGB Flotilla where his judgement, ability
and reliability in command of operations have brought him into special
prominence.

Architect. South Africa's only representative in the
Olympic Yachting events at Torquay Entry in the Firefly class, 03.08.1948.Published:
The diabolical : an account of
the adventures of five people who set out in a converted Ford lorry to make a
journey from Palestine to England across Asia Minor and the Balkans
(1934); A retrospective exhibition of naval drawings and water colours from
World War II, 1939-1945 (1973); The loneliness of the
long-distance swimmer. In: Sea Breezes (Jan, 1992, p11-9; on the
sinking of HMS Hecla)

As a young boy, he grew up
on Nederburg in Paarl. When his father sold the farm in
1923 the family moved to Kalk Bay. Peter loved farm life, the sea and the mountains. He spent most of his youth exploring the sea and the Kalk Bay Mountains. He also loved sailing and joined the Royal Cape Yacht Club in 1936, where he remained a member for the rest of his life. He matriculated from Bishops in 1933. At the outbreak of WWII he joined the 6th Mounted Regiment but his love of the sea and desire for adventure led him to change course and he joined the Royal Navy.

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-

05.04.1942

HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (ship sunk by Japanese
aircraft near Ceylon)

12.1943

-

(04.)1944

HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for Levant Schooner Flotilla)

22.04.1944

-

(01.)1945

First
Lieutenant, HM HDML 1373 (harbour defence motor launch)

20.03.1945

-

(07.1945)

First
Lieutenant, HM ML 836 (motor launch)

(04.1946)

no
appointment listed

Peter had travelled to so many different places
during the war that a career in travel was inevitable. Afterworking for Thomas Cook in Cape Town his desire for adventure changed the
course of his life again whenhe left to manage a large
travel agency in Zambia. He lived there for about thirteen years. At the end of1969 he returned to South Africa and started Pare’s Travel in Newlands,
the first travel agency in the Southern Suburbs. A second branch later opened in
Somerset West. He loved his work as he enjoyed exploring
new places and meeting the people who lived there. Peter had a great wealth of
knowledge about manyparts of the world. A holiday
recommended by him would always be a success.When Peter
retired he returned to country life, first in rural Ireland and then on a farm
near Stellenbosch. He was a very active person and strongly believed in keeping
fit both physically and mentally.He loved his garden,
grew his own vegetables and spent many hours in his workshop making toys for hisgrandchildren and pieces of furniture for his cottage.Peter’s second wife Patricia passed away two months after his death. He
is survived by his daughtersPenny, Daphne, Alison and
his five grandchildren.

Patrick,
Roy Edwin
Married ...; ... children (one son?).Moved
to Cape Town when he was about 5 (Mouille Point), moved back to Johannesburg as
an adult, then back to Cape Town to join up when the war broke out.

Education: Diocesan College, Rondebosch.Went to sea at the age of 16 and served
as a deck officer with the Union Castle Line and in the Royal Naval Reserve.
Joined Automobile Association of South Africa (A.A.) Staff, 1932.